Hacker News with Generative AI: Ancient Greece

Greek Temples Bridged Earth and Cosmos (mitpress.mit.edu)
Through sacred geometry and cosmic alignment, Greek temples transformed ordinary spaces into gateways to the divine.

Architecture, History, Religion, Ancient Greece

5 points by pseudolus 13 days ago | 0 comments

Ukrainian Soldiers Unearth Ancient Greek Burial (archaeology.org)

Ukraine, Archaeology, Ancient Greece, History

84 points by isaacfrond 52 days ago | 8 comments

Restoring Faith: Crete's Ancient Minoan Civilisation (2009) (historytoday.com)
At the end of the 19th century, British antiquarian Arthur Evans sought to ‘re-enchant’ the world with his utopian interpretation of Crete’s ancient Minoan civilisation.

History, Archaeology, Ancient Greece, Crete, Minoan Civilization

37 points by diodorus 68 days ago | 7 comments

Wake up Neo: An ancient painting competition, and The Matrix (blogspot.com)
Technical skill at imitating reality seems to have been a yardstick by which the best ancient Greek and Roman artists were judged.

Art, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, The Matrix

12 points by ArtHeresy 81 days ago | 0 comments

The False Promise of Digital Public Squares Was Always a Scam (joanwestenberg.com)
The Ancient Greek agora was a place where students and citizens could freely gather, give speeches, engage in debate, and challenge each other.

Social Media, Scams, Philosophy, Ancient Greece

16 points by cratermoon 89 days ago | 11 comments

Telling Stories in Athenian Law [pdf] (2002) (classicalstudies.org)

Law, History, Ancient Greece, Literature

45 points by asimpletune 152 days ago | 6 comments

The Antikythera mechanism – 254:19 ratio (leancrew.com)
A recent episode of the In Our Time podcast is about the Antikythera mechanism, which you’ve probably heard of. It’s a bronze device that dates back to the first century BCE and was found by divers on an ancient shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera in the early 1900s.

History, Ancient Greece, Archaeology

162 points by 082349872349872 159 days ago | 45 comments

Is the US an Ochlocracy? (anacyclosis.org)
The theory of anacyclosis (ἀνακύκλωσις in Greek) represents the culmination of ancient Greek political thought on the evolution of political communities.

Politics, History, Ancient Greece

18 points by kilroy123 198 days ago | 25 comments

Necromanteion of Acheron (wikipedia.org)
The Nekromanteion (Greek: Νεκρομαντεῖον) was an ancient Greek temple of necromancy devoted to Hades and Persephone.

Ancient Greece, Mythology, Religion, History

30 points by drdee 213 days ago | 6 comments

Ataraxia (wikipedia.org)
In Ancient Greek philosophy, ataraxia (Greek: ἀταραξία, from ἀ- indicating negation or absence and ταραχ- tarach- 'to disturb, trouble' with the abstract noun suffix -ία), generally translated as 'unperturbedness', 'imperturbability', 'equanimity', or 'tranquility',[1] is a lucid state of robust equanimity characterized by ongoing freedom from distress and worry.

Philosophy, Ancient Greece, Psychology

73 points by keepamovin 213 days ago | 25 comments

Remains of an ancient Greek structure found in Croatia (arkeonews.net)
Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a 3,500-year-old settlement in the heart of the Dalmatian village of Stobreč in Croatia.

Archaeology, Ancient Greece, Croatia

110 points by taubek 225 days ago | 29 comments

Uncovered Euripides fragments are 'kind of a big deal' (colorado.edu)

Ancient Greece, Archaeology, History, Literature

276 points by caf 292 days ago | 90 comments

Analysis of Greek prehistoric combat in full body armour based on physiology (plos.org)